“Is that where we get ‘single blessedness’?”
“It is. You have heard of the person, haven’t you, that didn’t like Hamlet very well when she heard it played, ‘because it was so full of quotations’?”
“Nor original enough, I suppose,” laughed Isabel.
“Oh, I must tell you girls something funny,” said Cathalina. “Yesterday I was in here alone, and practicing my lines. I am the first Fairy, and was saying the lines instead of singing them. I had just broken out with ‘You spotted snakes with double tongue,’—when I saw that new academy freshman, who has only been here this spring, standing in the door and looking at me with eyes as big as saucers. Whether she had knocked or not I don’t know. I stopped, laughing, but I haven’t the least idea that she understood at all. She gave me a message from Miss Randolph as quickly as she could, and hurried off without letting me explain.”
“She probably thought that you were in the habit of addressing your room-mates in that happy way,” said Isabel.
“I have wondered several times what she did think, and laughed right out in the middle of the night last night and wakened Betty. You thought I had lost my mind, didn’t you Betty?”
“Yes; but I was glad that you wakened me, for I was having a horrible dream about Captain Holley’s coming back for me, and it was nice to be wakened by somebody’s laughing.” Betty’s nerves were not what they might be since her last experience, but the girls purposely made light of it all.
At this moment, Diane Percy and Eloise arrived to join the company, and Virginia peeped in to see if Isabel were there. “Come on in just a minute, Virgie,” called Isabel. “The girls are telling about the play. Have you a part, Diane?”
“Yes, I’m Demetrius, and Edith Lane is Helena, because she is the tallest fair girl we have and we have to have a contrast between her and Evelyn.”
“What are you, Eloise?”